When I called Miami “home” for 10 months!

I lived in Miami under a scholarship program for about 10 months. What’s interesting about Miami is there are always things happen in Miami. All kinds of event, celebration, party, exhibition. Everyday! The sun always shines, the beach is always there, and the party never ends.
When I came to Miami, I made a research and a list of Places to visit in Miami and things to do in Miami:

• Downtown Miami ✅ (Bayside area, Bayfront Park, American Airlines Arena – home of Miami Heat NBA team, Port of Miami – and the boat tour) 

• South Beach ✅ (Who doesn’t know Miami Beach? Hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, all along the beach, stroll the Washington Ave, Ocean Drive, and Lincoln Road. Take a picture in front of the South Beach Monument Clock somewhere around the beach, visit Nikki Beach Club or other clubs or all the clubs, get a tattoo at Love Hate Tattoo from the Miami Ink TV show, and eat at Joe’s Stone Crab)

• North Miami Beach ✅ (I went to Haulover Beach where I saw nude beach for the first time)
• Everglades National Park and the Alligator Farm ✅

• Vizcaya Museum and Gardens ✅
• Miami Beach Botanical Garden ✅
• Little Havana ✅
• Zoo Miami ✅
• Adrienne Arsht Center ✅
• Key Biscayne  ✅ (Miami Seaquarium, Crandon Park)

• Malls (Dolphin Mall, Dadeland Mall, Sawgrass Mills, Aventura Mall) ✅

Things you need to know about Miami:

• Miami is not only South Beach, there are many municipal or neighbourhoods across Miami Dade County that are also worth to see.
• Miami has two major universities: University of Miami (UM) and Florida International University (FIU) and the biggest community college in US: Miami Dade College
• Most of the population speak Spanish.
• Miami public transportation sucks and most of the drivers are crazy and rude.
• Good source to find out what’s happening in Miami: www.miaminewtimes.com